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More temples at friendly Suhkothai
So yesterday, we hopped on a train from Ayathuya and enjoyed the air con and stewardess service for 1.5 hours as far as Phitsanulok (350b) , the nearest train station to Sukhothai. We bought overpriced ticket for the local bus (50b pp) an jumped onto the bone shaker and trundled our way on the 2…
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Ayathuya, wat wat
On our second day in Ayathuya we rented bikes and cycled off to visit some of the many wats in the area. This was the seat of power for a while back in the day, and as such has lots of old crumbly ruins. We had a good poke around a few and I…
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Chicken elbows
We have successfully found our way up to Ayathuya, where the pace is a little slower than in Bangkok. The train took around 1.5 hours, and still a little dazed from the heat, and sleepy from a poor nights sleep, I didn’t think to find out the other options for the rail fare – 315…
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From Rainy Dublin to Rainy Bangkok
So it turns out, it flipping rains in Asia… trust us to turn up at the end of rainy season. Imagine our worry when we landed into Bangkok Airport after a 16 hour journey from grey Dublin, to an even greyer, over-cast and torrentially raining Bangkok! However, as we discovered to our en-pinkened delight, it’s…
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4th Oct – Day 3
I can’t believe we have been here 3 days already, I would like to slow time down 🙂 Today started with a not so great breakfast but we have to try new places each time as so many places to eat. We then headed by tuk tuk to the Golden Mount which offers amazing views…
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3rd Oct – Day 3
Today we started with a lovely breakfast, then headed by foot to the Grand Palace. The temperature was very hot today but no sign of rain (forgot to say it was raining when we arrived at the airport yesterday, but then we did expect that as it is rainy season) the rain is actually very…
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1st Oct Leaving for Bangkok
Our trip starts 11am Monday morning – we left our apartment in Jefferson house for the last time with our rucksacks on our backs and heading for Dublin airport. Teresa kindly gave us a lift and took some of our belongings so we don’t have to head straight to the storage unit when we get…
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Leaving for Thailand
The first leg of our trip – Jefferson house to Dublin airport. With the help of Olga an Teresa we have finally emptied Belmont apartment of all of our stuff! We said out goodbyes to John Mark and Bronagh, who are going on their own separate adventures 🙂 we’ll miss them!!
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the last weekend with the Belmonters
today was lovely, we went swimming in the 40foot with really big waves. Before that Bronagh made a really scrumptious breakfast, that thankfully wasn’t burnt. then this evening I made a lovely dinner that made everyone go into a food coma.. I am going to really really miss my wonderful flatmates. I don’t know where…
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Moving out, going to Asia
So, we finally got organised. We booked flights to Thailand, and are moving out of our apartment, we’ll be back in November!